On the other hand, this rising tide of poor migrating folks to our proximate South does indeed anger a large xenophobic swath of potential GOP voters, unable to deal with the changing face of their nation, thus pandering to them makes a whole lot of political sense.

Yet, such candidates, if they were serious about doing what is best for America, might consider joining Democrats willing to lobby for wall-building legislation along our vulnerable coastline to hold back a rising tide of water that in the not-so-distant future, due to man-induced global warming and melting glaciers, threatens the very existence of cities from Boston to Miami not to mention our Gulf Coast.